Well, here it is folks….. I am happy to declare that Awaken The Guardian by Fates Warning is one of, if not THE best progressive metal in the history of the genre.
At the moment i am trying to quickly re-listen to each and every one the …

Artist: Mariah Carey
Video: Make It Happen
Album: Emotions
Label: Columbia Records
Director: Marcus Nispel
“Make It Happen” is the third and final single and music video from Mariah Carey’s second album titled “Emotions”, following the previous singles and music videos which are “Emotions” and “Can’t Let Go”. Marcus Nispel directs the music video …

Viola Lee Blues is a track which appears on The Grateful Dead’s self-titled debut record. I remember that the first time I heard this track the first thing that struck me was the track length of the song since it’s over ten minutes in length. I’ll say right now, …

Put a girl in it by Brooks and Dunn is a very good song about how you can do anything but put a girl in it and that makes everything worth it. It’s like she makes all the difference to any situation because a guy needs a girl and …

Run Over By A Truck is a song by Weezer which appears on their record Raditude. Right from the title, you should be able to tell that this track is certainly going to have a different feel, for lack of a better description. The song is driven by a …

P. Diddy ft. Nicole Scherzinger
“Come To Me”
Press Play
Bad Boy Entertainment
It appears that P. Diddy has gone from the Shiny Suit Man to the mannequin in the Bloomingdales department store window. Seriously, he looks like he came out of a Hugo Boss advertisement or something in this music video. “Come …

One of the biggest hits off the Appetite for Destruction, or the debut album by Guns N’ Roses was the epic tune tune Nightrain. I think the band did a good job of releasing this song as a single. It is one of those songs that you can identify …

I have to admit that one of my guilty pleasures is listening to the music of Disney stars. Though not usually of the best quality, the music tends to be fairly catchy. Recently, I have become a fan of Selena Gomez. I just purchased her new album, “A Year …

Eminem’s final album, “Curtain Call” was a bit disappointing. It was short and it didn’t have many new songs on it. Some of the new songs are cool and have good beats, like “Shake That” featuring Nate Dogg.
Another new song is F.A.C.K is fairly entertaining, but also kind of …

We Care is a song by MGMT, a modern psychedelic band hailing from Brooklyn, New York. We Care is the first “real” song on the album, since Come On Christmas came before it and that track is primarily just an opening for the album. The song opens up with …

“Good Morning Revival” is the 2007 album from pop-punk band Good Charlotte.It is very different to their previous 3 albums in that it introduces a new Dance sound into Good Charlotte’s normal snotty teen pop-punk sound.Fans of Good Charlotte’s earlier work (I would be one of them)may be disappointed …

In the song Montana off the Apostrophe album Zappa explains his life as if he were a cattle rancher in the state of Montana. The vocals in this song are interesting because Frank utilizes a lot of metaphors like dental floss being compared to rope it’s kind of funny. …

Star Trek: Sound Effects from the Original TV Soundtrack might not sound much like a soundtrack, but if you are someone that grew up watching the original or cannot get enough of the sound effects used on the 1960s television show, this soundtrack is sure to please you and …

Black Hole Sun, do you know it? Of course you do! We all remember that song. 1995 Grammy winners for Best Hard Rock Performance, and Best Metal Peformance with their respective tunes Black Hole Sun and Spoonman, Soundgarden really announced to the world that they were here to say …

I remember Keanu Reeves started in this video as the man replacing the boyfriend of Paula because he died in a car race against him. The video is about teenage love, like the Teenage dream of Katy Perry but this one is more conservative. It is part of Paula …

Overview —“ Side II of Tommy may only have four tracks to it, but due to the last track, it has a lot of music on it. Obviously since this is a concept record, all of the songs on here fit together with one another in some way or …

By the late 80’s, GG Allin’s music has become obsessed with murder, necrophilia, sex, drugs, and et cetera anti-social themes. His voice has become a heavily distorted yell, making his vocals sound like a 60 year smoker yelling. The recording quality has decreased to the point that some songs …

Jay-Z ft. Amil and Big Jaz
“Jigga What, Jigga Who”
Volume 2… Hard Knock Life
Roc-A-Fella Records
“Jigga What, Jigga Who” is the fourth and final single and music video from his third album “Volume 2… Hard Knock Life”, following “Can I Get A…”, “Hard Knock Life”, and “More Money, More Cash, More …

This is one of the most underrated album of the 1990s. I am sure that many people have heard it. And I have talked to many people who have heard this album, and everybody I talked to seems to like this album a lot. But somehow, there are many …

Indie rock is a genre that seems to be in a state of forgotten identity as of late, often seeming to lose touch with itself. Company of Thieves is a band that has good indie sensibilities with a folky feel, offering a good blend of both throughout their library. …

Innervision is a song by System Of A Down which appears on their record Steal This Album. The track starts off with a moderate tempo and features a heavy guitar part from Malakian before going into a more driving riff rather than a very heavy percussive rhythm riff. Tankian …

The album that real defines Heavy Rock N Roll for me is the Album Women And Children First by Van Halen. You can really tell it is going to be an awesome experience listening to it just by the album art work that displays the whole band and the …

Death Of An Interior Designer is a song by Death Cab For Cutie which appears on their record Transatlanticism. The song opens up with an odd drum rhythm before a calming guitar pattern comes in over the top and a subtle bass rhythm can also be heard in the …

Old School Hollywood is a song by System Of A Down which appears on their record Mezmerize, the first half of their double album Mezmerize/Hypnotize. The track opens up with a synthesizer along with a drum pattern, something very rare for System Of A Down to utilize but an …

I was 16 (now I’m 21) when I started listening to The Cranberries. They were the ones who made me like music in general, and they’re the ones I’ll probably always hold in my heart. And that is why I’m really biased when it comes to this particular band, …

After the monstrously successful “Dark Side of The Moon” Pink Floyd ultimately reached their goal of becoming rich and famous, from cozy stages they’ve reached to play in stadiums, their name being known everywhere and by everyone. And the pressure the band was forced to deal with also made …

When it comes to dark jazz, the average listener tends to think of the melancholic and sedative performances of the likes of Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, perhaps even Miles Davis in his addiction years. But what most don’t realize is that, as a genre, dark jazz had never fully …

I have a Ray Conniff Christmas songs selections in cassette tape. It is Christmas with the Conniff and I have this for years and each Christmas this cassette tape is one of the most played Christmas albums in my home. It is as if Christmas …

Brooks and Dunn finally hung up their singing hats and retired in 2010. They had a big blow out party on television celebrating their contributions to country music and Ain’t Nothin’ About You was right in there with all the rest of their great hits. The lyrics of this …

Shallow Grave is a song by The Tallest Man On Earth which appears on his record Shallow Graves. The track opens up with an intricate pattern which actually reminds me of a sound that Mumford And Sons would come up with. The vocals come in quickly and I think …

Breathe by Michelle branch is a song about how a girl is trying to decide if she wants to stay with her boyfriend or leave but it seems to me like she wants to stay. I found this song on a site called Pandora but you can find it …

Another great and talented singer would be Katy Perry and in One Of The Boys by Katy Perry; the title of her album, I can’t help but to compare her voice to Gwen Stefani of No Doubt. But she has her own identity voice and not quite Gwen. …

The Changeling is a song by The Doors which appears on their album L.A. Woman. The track starts off with a nice organ part which has this very catchy rhythm and Morrison just sort of grunting some noises which at least adds some character to the track. A lead …

Once in a while a band/artist comes along and totally shakes the foundations of conventional and un-conventional art. In this case, the band is Tool, and the art form in qustion is music. The album in question is Lateralus, a monolithic epic album that transcends all conventional boundries and …

“Red Rubber Ball” by The Cyrkle is pretty much the only song from this group that appeals to me. It is a pity that this song is on the short side with a running time of around two minutes and twenty two seconds and in that two minutes and …

I only got introduced to the singer Elise Estrada after I heard her song entitled Lipstick on the radio. I thought, what great song it was, it has all the feelings of a young woman who pretends she is not in love with a man to whom she …

Naomi is a song by Neutral Milk Hotel which appears on their first full length release, On Avery Island. Opening up with a strumming guitar pattern and simple percussive rhythm, Magnum comes in with the vocals for the first verse pretty quickly and I must say that I like …

All Eyes on Me is one of the best albums ever made in rap history. 2 Pac showed us what real rap music is supposed to sound like on this album. All Eyes on Me on me has some very good songs such as Ambitions as a Rider, which …

Fell In Love With A Girl is a song by the White Stripes which appears on their album White Blood Cells. The track opens up with a fairly recognizable riff which is incredibly energetic before Jack’s vocals come in as well as Meg’s drumming. The vocal delivery is incredibly …

Remember the band Sixpence None the Richer? The really super cool band with their main female lead singer and I bought their CD recently titled, The Best of Sixpence None the Richer. There are close to 20 songs inside and it brings me down to memory lane just …

Overview —“ Holy Wars—¦ The Punishment Due, the lead off track of Megadeth’s most acclaimed record, Rust In Peace, is only one of nine examples of why this album is praised to highly. Although not the only reason why this album was so good, but definitely one of the …

Lil’ Kim ft. Lil’ Cease and The Notorious B.I.G.
“Crush On You”
Hardcore
Atlantic/Bad Boy
Lil’ Kim follows up her previous single and video, “No Time”, with “Crush On You”, her second single and music video from her debut album, “Hardcore”. The previous video had a little something going with the whole rapping …

Rihanna’s 7th album to date, she gifts us with the title “Unapologetic”. Although there’s no track in the album under the same title, I believe the theme is based around that title. Following the hype and promotion of this album, I decided to purchase a copy for myself. I …

A great power Ballad by Velvet Revolver is the song Fall To Pieces, off their debut album Contraband. I really like this song because it has a really heavy feel to with a soft side. The softer slower guitar parts are through the main verses with some fingerpicking chorus …

“New Orleans is Sinking” is the second single released by Canadian rock group The Tragically Hip. It appears off their 1989 debut album “Up to Here” as track number 3. It reached spot number 30 on the US Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks and 1 on the Canadian Content Chart.
Quite …

Lady Down on Love is a song by Alabama. This song is about a girls first experience with love. The song is fairly good but what it reminds me most of was the year that my family went to Fan Fair in Nashville Tennessee. I was about 12 …

Unplugged is a song by The Flaming Lips which appears on their album Hear It Is. Interestingly enough, the track opens up with a distorted guitar riff which actually has a pretty driving sound to it, certainly not the sound that the Flaming Lips would come to be known …

The first time that I heard of the popular American singer and rapper Eve was not in the late nineteen nineties when she had released her first studio album, but instead in the early two thousands when I was still in my early years of high school, and her …

I would like to retract my perhaps harsh previous review of Madonna. I found myself glancing at the top 20 billboard chard for 2008 so far and decided to buy the full album and listen to it in its entirety; I had previously heard quite a bit of it, …